“It’s Alive!” The Ninth Circuit Affirms A Hair-Raising Punitive Award To A Title VII Plaintiff Who Suffered No Actual Harm

Here’s a question fit for October 31: Can an employer be liable for over $100,000 in punitive damages in a Title VII action, despite a jury award to the plaintiff of zero compensatory damages and merely one dollar in nominal damages? In an opinion that should scare the daylights out of employers everywhere, the Ninth Circuit answered this question with a spine-chilling “Yes.”

This case has significant ramifications for the workplace class action world.

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